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Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment: Women Writers Read Rousseau

Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment: Women Writers Read Rousseau

Trouille, Mary Seidman

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, the Margins of Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0791434907
ISBN13: 9780791434901
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Aug 28 1997
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.94 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

Explores the way seven women writers of the eighteenth century responded to Rousseau, and traces his crucial influence on their literary careers.

Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment constitutes the first book-length feminist study of Rousseau's sexual politics and the reception of his works by women readers. By today's standards, Rousseau's sexual politics appear reactionary, paternalistic, even blatantly misogynist; yet, among his female contemporaries, his works often met with enthusiastic approval and had tremendous impact on their values and behavior. To probe Rousseau's paradoxical appeal to eighteenth-century readers, Mary Trouille examines how seven women authors responded to his writings and sexual politics and traces his influence on their lives and works. The writers include six Frenchwomen (Roland, d'Epinay, Stael, Genlis, Gouges, and an anonymous woman correspondent who called herself Henriette) and the English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

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